Rockford's Love Child
Member
- Joined
- 15 Mar 2010
- Messages
- 13,914
- Player
- Jason Koumas / John Morrissey
- Manager
- John King
I thought we actually played well tonight for the majority of the game and clearly deserved to win against a frankly dreadful Rochdale side. However, our game management at present is absolutely pathetic and we are also prone to defensive lapses which we just were not making a couple of months ago.
We were lethargic in the first twenty minutes, but the freak goal settled us and we played some decent football through midfield thereafter. I thought Hendry, Hughes and Bristow had good games, and Saunders was a real livewire with several decent efforts on goal, in addition to winning the penalty. Lloyd's effort from distance should have been nothing more than a consolation, as Rochdale had not offered anything to that point, but we lost our discipline and handed them a way back into the match. The defending for the equaliser was dreadful.
There are some positives in the individual displays, and I thought Saunders and Hendry in particular were very good tonight, assuming we have a chance of keeping the latter. However, the inability of manager and players to deliver results, irrespective of whether the season is dead, is unacceptable.
Surely we have to make a managerial appointment soon to end this drift.
We were lethargic in the first twenty minutes, but the freak goal settled us and we played some decent football through midfield thereafter. I thought Hendry, Hughes and Bristow had good games, and Saunders was a real livewire with several decent efforts on goal, in addition to winning the penalty. Lloyd's effort from distance should have been nothing more than a consolation, as Rochdale had not offered anything to that point, but we lost our discipline and handed them a way back into the match. The defending for the equaliser was dreadful.
There are some positives in the individual displays, and I thought Saunders and Hendry in particular were very good tonight, assuming we have a chance of keeping the latter. However, the inability of manager and players to deliver results, irrespective of whether the season is dead, is unacceptable.
Surely we have to make a managerial appointment soon to end this drift.